Education

MSc in Comparative Social Policy
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK – 2015

Visiting Student
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada – 2014

BA (Honours) in Political Science
Laurentian University, Sudbury/Barrie, Canada – 2014

Skill Highlights

Professional Experience

Consultant

Freelance August 2020 – Present

Researcher

Disability Rights UK June 2016 – August 2020

Instructor in Health Studies

Queen’s University, Bader International Study Centre May 2019

Data Analyst (Freelance)

London Business School June 2018 – October 2018

Performance and Impact Officer

The Future Leaders Trust October 2015 – June 2016

Research and Teaching Assistant

Laurentian University October 2012 – April 2013

Projects

Bridge to Work Programme Evaluation

Primary researcher and annual report author January 2018 – December 2023
Funder: City Bridge Trust £100,000

Disabled People Accessing Community-Based Activities

Lead researcher and report author February 2020 – March 2020
Funder: NHS Personalised Care Group £10,000

Access to Advice Services in London

Data analyst and report author December 2019 – February 2020
Funder: Nuffield Foundation £5,000

Inclusive Education and Co-Production

Principle investigator December 2018 – June 2019
Funder: European Association of Service Providers for Persons with Disabilities €4,000

Young People’s Attitudes to Disability

Lead researcher and report author April 2018 – August 2019
Funder: Disability Research on Independent Living & Learning (DRILL) £40,000

Professional Memberships

Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles

Odell, E. (2017). Lonely schools: The relationship between geographic isolation and academic attainment. Educational Research, 59(3), 257–272. DOI: 10.1080/00131881.2017.1339285

Reports and Preprints

Hale, C., Benstead, S., Lyus, J., Odell, E., & Ruddock, A. (2020). Energy Impairment and Disability Inclusion. The Centre for Welfare Reform. centreforwelfarereform.org/uploads/attachment/681/energy-impairment-and-disability-inclusion.pdf
Odell, E. (2020). Getting it right the first time: Financial penalties to improve disability benefit assessments. LawArXiv. DOI: 10.31228/osf.io/jksyp
Odell, E. (2019). Special or Unique: Young People’s Attitudes to Disability. Disability Rights UK. drilluk.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DR-UK-Special-or-Unique-August-2019.pdf
Aston, J., Bennett, L., Murphy, H., Odell, E., & Stevens, T. (2019). External evaluation of the Bridge to Work Programme. City Bridge Trust. citybridgetrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Bridge-to-Work-Year-1-report.pdf
Odell, E. (2018). Disability, Rights and Vulnerability in British Parliamentary Debate. SocArXiv. DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/tqf5j
Theobald, K., & Odell, E. (2015). Isolated schools: Out on a limb. Future Leaders Trust. future-leaders.org.uk/documents/195/Isolated_schools_Out_on_a_limb.pdf

R Packages

Odell, E. (2020). threesixtygiving: Download Charitable Grants from the ‘360Giving’ Platform. github.com/evanodell/threesixtygiving
Odell, E. (2019). guardianapi: Access the ‘Guardian’ newspaper open data API. github.com/evanodell/guardianapi
Odell, E., & Tierney, N. (2019). ukpolice: Download Data on UK Police and Crime. github.com/evanodell/ukpolice
Odell, E. (2019). cqcr: Access ‘Care Quality Commission’ Data. github.com/evanodell/cqcr
Odell, E. (2018). nomisr: Access Nomis UK Labour Market Data. Journal of Open Source Software, 3(27), 859. DOI: 10.21105/joss.00859
Odell, E. (2018). fixerapi: An R Client for the ‘Fixer.io’ Currency API. github.com/evanodell/fixerapi
Odell, E. (2018). refuge: Locate Trans and Intersex-Friendly Toilets. github.com/evanodell/refuge
Odell, E. (2017). hansard: Accessing Westminster Parliament Data. github.com/evanodell/hansard
Odell, E. (2017). mnis: Easy Downloading Capabilities for the Members’ Name Information Service. github.com/evanodell/mnis
Odell, E. (2017). parlitools: Tools for Analysing UK Politics. github.com/evanodell/parlitools

Datasets

Odell, E. (2019). Hansard Speeches V2.6.1 [dataset]. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.780985